Free AEO audit: is your site ready for AI answer engines?

Enter your domain and see which technical blockers stand between your site and AI answer engines such as ChatGPT Search, Claude and Perplexity. No signup.

No signup and no payment details needed. Checks the homepage, robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt.

What AEO means

AEO, answer engine optimization, is the practice of making your site easy for AI answer engines to find, read and quote: crawlers are allowed in, the content is understandable, and the key facts (what you are, what you sell, what it costs) are stated in a way a model can lift.

It overlaps with classic SEO but is not the same thing. This audit covers the technical half: access, structure and metadata. It does not write answers for you, and no audit can guarantee that an assistant will mention you.

Exactly what we check

This list is the audit's own check list. Each line below is a check the audit runs on the domain you enter.

ChatGPT Search

  • robots.txt lets OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User reach the homepage, /llms.txt and /pricing
  • Homepage has a meta description and og:description that answer engines can quote
  • Organization and SoftwareApplication/Product schema (with offers) on the homepage
  • Homepage copy mentions pricing, features, use cases, API/MCP or comparisons

AI Discoverability

  • Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User are not blocked in robots.txt
  • /llms.txt exists and carries the core product context (what it is, pricing, API/MCP, use cases)

Structured Data

  • JSON-LD structured data is present
  • Organization schema
  • FAQ schema, and whether it is in the server-rendered HTML

Content Strategy

  • A crawlable /blog or /guides hub exists
  • Comparison or alternatives context appears on the homepage

Technical SEO

  • robots.txt exists and declares a sitemap
  • sitemap.xml exists and lists URLs
  • Canonical tag on the homepage
  • Homepage can be fetched at all

Security and sharing

  • The site is served over HTTPS
  • Open Graph tags for link previews
  • Cross-links to your related products

What we cannot tell you

FAQ

What is an AEO audit?

A check of the technical things that decide whether answer engines can reach and understand your site: crawler access in robots.txt, llms.txt, structured data, and answer-ready metadata and copy. This one runs on one domain and returns the fix for each failing check.

Does this tell me if ChatGPT mentions my brand?

No. SEOBolt does not query ChatGPT or any other assistant in this free audit. It checks whether your site is technically ready to be read.

Is the audit really free?

Yes. It needs no signup and no payment details. It is rate limited to a few audits per network every few minutes.

How is this different from the GEO audit?

The checks are the same list; the two names describe the same readiness work. See the GEO audit page for the other framing.

Can my AI assistant run it?

Yes. Ask an assistant that can browse to open seobolt.app/free-audit/report/<your domain>, or add the MCP server (needs a free API key). The snippet appears after you run the audit.

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